Actions by the AHA Council, January to June 2017

Through e-mail conversation from January 9, 2017, to May 12, 2017, and at meetings on June 3 and 4, 2017, the Council of the American Historical Association made the following decisions or actions:

Approved the temporary suspension of the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship due to lack of funding. [Note: Suspension was rescinded after guarantee of partial funding of the grant from the Library of Congress.]

Approved a statement based on a letter from AHA President Tyler Stovall to John Kelly, secretary of homeland security, and relevant committees of the House and Senate protesting the treatment of French historian Henry Rousso, who was detained at an airport in Texas while en route to present his research at a conference at Texas A&M University.

Approved a letter to President János Áder of Hungary opposing legislation passed by the Hungarian Parliament that targets Central European University in Budapest.

Approved the affiliated society application of the Western Society for French History.

Appointed William F. Wechsler, Capitol Peak Asset Management, to serve on the Finance Committee.

Approved the Fiscal Year 2018 Operating Budget.

Approved the Fiscal Year 2018 Capital Budget.

Approved changes to the Clarence H. Haring Prize giving preference to books written in one of the languages of Latin America and to authors whose primary affiliation is to a Latin American institution.

Appointed Carina Ray, Brandeis University (Africa); Kenneth James Lipartito, Florida International University (Modern US); Heidi Tinsman, University of California, Irvine (Latin America); and Francesca Trivellato, Yale University (Early Modern Europe) to the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review.